Gaming rumors you heard (and maybe believed as a kid)?

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Jacob Potila was actually a Jacob Flotilla of lies.- WarTurkey
We've all been there. Somebody at school caught Mewthree at Mt Moon, or there was a secret code to play as Mario's blue brother Antonio. What were some gaming rumors you heard as a kid, whether you believed them or not?

Somebody told me that you could catch Crystal Onix at Tanoby Ruins in Pokemon Firered. Was so dissappointed when it was just Unown.

Also I was told there was a green Latias/Os type Pokemon at Shoal Cave called Latiosa...


 
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"Unlock Sonic/Toad by defeating 50 enemies in Cruel Melee."

I never bought into that one, but there would always be that one guy at school who would be like, "Yup, I did it."


 
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Everybody fell for the whole push the truck with push and you can get to the moon to capture Mew in the original pokemon. Though there is a very weird, practical non cheating method to getting Mew in the original two and it's weird as hell. Also very fun. Makes me wonder if they intentionally put it in.

Anyway, that you could save Aeris in FF7. Even the official strategy guide said you could, which is stupid.


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I fell for the Unown thing hard, too. I read somewhere that if you caught Unown C, E, L, E, B, and I (in that order) in your party, and went to the shrine in Ilex Forest, a Celebi would appear.

...Celebi did not appear.

i was so mad

YouTube

Also, this.
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Jacob Potila was actually a Jacob Flotilla of lies.- WarTurkey
While on the Pokemon subject can I say that I just caught Primal Kyogre in a Nest Ball

lol.


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"Drop your armour on the ground, press Alt F4, and enjoy your new gilded version!"

Never fell for the many many many scams on Runescape but that by far was the most successful.
jesus christ


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Jacob Potila was actually a Jacob Flotilla of lies.- WarTurkey
"Drop your armour on the ground, press Alt F4, and enjoy your new gilded version!"

Never fell for the many many many scams on Runescape but that by far was the most successful.

I got scammed out of an adamant med helm


sad times :(


 
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The Karissa the Destroyer thing was fucked up on a number of levels.

For those who don't know, last year, Gamestop was holding a Smash tournament. Participating was a little ten-year-old girl called Karissa, and she ended up destroying everybody in the tournament. Not only was it cool to see someone her age perform so well in the tournament--it was also refreshing to see someone who wasn't a twenty-something male playing the game.

Not a lot of girls play Smash, and the only one who I can think of (Milktea) stopped playing the game due to harassment and pressures from her fellow male gamers, so the Smash community hasn't exactly been a very welcoming community for women, which sucks. So seeing someone like Karissa doing well brought in some degree of encouragement to that end.

...Only, it ended up being a hoax.

Karissa was revealed to be a fraud. As she would play her matches, a top player called Korean DJ, hidden in a closet, would play her matches for her, while Karissa would pretend to tap buttons on her own controller. The entire thing was just a marketing ploy for Smash 4--trying to get people like me all hyped for the game's competitive scene.

The most offensive thing about the whole thing is that Karissa, being ten, is too young to understand that she was being exploited. Both her age and her gender were being used as marketing tactics, and she didn't even know it.

It was an insult to her, an insult to women, an insult to the Smash community, and an insult to gaming in general, really.

Fuck KoreanDJ for being a part of that.


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Many a fake Kingdom Hearts 3 announcements.

One day....perhaps


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The Karissa the Destroyer thing was fucked up on a number of levels.

For those who don't know, last year, Gamestop was holding a Smash tournament. Participating was a little ten-year-old girl called Karissa, and she ended up destroying everybody in the tournament. Not only was it cool to see someone her age perform so well in the tournament--it was also refreshing to see someone who wasn't a twenty-something male playing the game.

Not a lot of girls play Smash, and the only one who I can think of (Milktea) stopped playing the game due to harassment and pressures from her fellow male gamers, so the Smash community hasn't exactly been a very welcoming community for women, which sucks. So seeing someone like Karissa doing well brought in some degree of encouragement to that end.

...Only, it ended up being a hoax.

Karissa was revealed to be a fraud. As she would play her matches, a top player called Korean DJ, hidden in a closet, would play her matches for her, while Karissa would pretend to tap buttons on her own controller. The entire thing was just a marketing ploy for Smash 4--trying to get people like me all hyped for the game's competitive scene.

The most offensive thing about the whole thing is that Karissa, being ten, is too young to understand that she was being exploited. Both her age and her gender were being used as marketing tactics, and she didn't even know it.

It was an insult to her, an insult to women, an insult to the Smash community, and an insult to gaming in general, really.

Fuck KoreanDJ for being a part of that.
Thats pretty fucked


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Many a fake Kingdom Hearts 3 announcements.

One day....perhaps

It was already announced for the PS4 and Xbox One. They've shown off WIP stuff for it.


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Many a fake Kingdom Hearts 3 announcements.

One day....perhaps

It was already announced for the PS4 and Xbox One. They've shown off WIP stuff for it.
Dates. (should have worded that correctly)

Trust me, I've been right up on the news......I just want a real date to look forward to, earliest won't be till about 2017 I wager :/


 
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I thought the Golden Warthog was behind one of those big doors in Headlong.

The hidden Trigate under Delta Halo's lake. I tried to figure this out for weeks but eventually realized that it was nothing. The switch that supposedly "unlocked" the trigate just activated the gondolas. I tried everything from collecting all the skulls to beating the entire game on Legendary to figure out what was really behind that gate.

Hidden CE pistol in one of Halo 2's multiplayer maps, Tombstone I think was its name. There's a box behind a chain fence that has the CE pistol's wireframe on it. This turned out to be true.

Ghost of Lockout. I'm not sure if this was debunked or not but it was still strange when I first heard about this. I still think it was Bungie trolling a random guy.

Bigfoot in San Andreas. Man I spent hours running around with the minigun in that forested area called Back O' Beyond near San Fierro and ended up finding nothing. I ended up learning that Bigfoot was just a mod for the PC version of the game.

The Ghost Cars in San Andreas was another thing I heard about cause my cousin told me and this ends up being true. In that same forest in San Andreas, there's cars that will drive themselves up and down the hills. Why they do that I still don't know. Could be a bug Rockstar forgot about.

Ratman in GTA 4. In the subway tunnels there's supposedly a homeless man that will run up to you and say "I'm Ratman!" or something like that and will run away really fast. I drove through those tunnels and never found anything.


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Ghost of Lockout. I'm not sure if this was debunked or not but it was still strange when I first heard about this. I still think it was Bungie trolling a random guy.
Wasn't debunked. The most likely cause was a network issue, when a third player joined.


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The fucking Golden Warthog in Halo 2.
Not really a rumor but Halo: Reach's Legendary Ending.
Woody's Workshop in the Toy Story 2 game.
That Halo 5 would have a good story.
The Numbers Station in Fallout 3. That shit was kind of scary.


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Pikablu, the mew truck, the hidden world 9 in the original mario, saying you need to beat the entire game on one life to unlock the super hard world, where you fight super bowser.


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I never believed any honestly, but I quite liked reading up on things like Ben Drowned from Majora's Mask, or the whole Lavender Town thing with Pokemon Gen 1, or the Numbers Station in Fallout 3.

And I like reading about peoples interpretations of games and their stories, a lot of the Binding of Isaac stuff is great as the story was up to the community to find out. ]


 
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Does the mew truck exist in Fire Red?


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despite falling for such ruses myself, i was also a perpetrator of a few gaming rumors; for example, i convinced two of my friends that there was a secret "pokemon cloning facility" somewhere in pokemon diamond and pearl where one could receive any and every pokemon; however, as we all soon came to own action replays, the ability to obtain whatever pokemon one wished became just another commodity, and my rumor lost merit


 
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Does the mew truck exist in Fire Red?
Yep.

Truck

Once again, it's functionless, but there's a Lava Cookie near it this time around.


 
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Does the mew truck exist in Fire Red?
Yep.

Truck

Once again, it's functionless, but there's a Lava Cookie near it this time around.

So what was the point of it.


 
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So what was the point of it.
Decoration.


 
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Well that's disappointing.


 
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Eh I get it. It's more of a nod towards the funny rumor.